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House of Hesse; Parent family: House of Brabant: Country: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland: Founded: 1264; 760 years ago () Founder: Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse: Current head: Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse: Final ruler: Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse: Titles: Landgrave of Hesse
- 1264; 759 years ago
- Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
This is a list of monarchs of Hesse (German: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These monarchs belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant , [1] originally the Reginar .
- 1264
- Ernest Louis (as grand duke)
- Henry I (as landgrave)
- His Royal Highness
2 de nov. de 2022 · Famous for their beauty, the Hesse sisters were known within royal circles as ‘The Four Graces’. Victoria, Ella, Irene and Alix were granddaughters of Queen Victoria and each married into a European dynasty. Their lives, loves and losses fractured, altered and shaped the royal makeup of Europe like never before.
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Victoria was born on Easter Sunday at Windsor Castle in the presence of her maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was christened in the Lutheran faith in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, in the arms of the Queen on 27 April. Her godparents were Queen Victoria, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by R...
At family gatherings, Victoria had often met Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was her first cousin once removed and a member of a morganatic branch of the Hessian royal family. Prince Louis had adopted British nationality and was serving as an officer in the Royal Navy. In the winter of 1882, they met again at Darmstadt, and were engaged the followi...
Prince Louis was forced to resign from the navy at the start of the war when his German origins became an embarrassment, and the couple retired for the war years to Kent House on the Isle of Wight, which Victoria had been given by her aunt Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Victoria blamed her husband's forced resignation on the Government "who fe...
With the help of her lady-in-waiting, Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, Victoria wrote a memoir, held in the Mountbatten archive at the University of Southampton, which remains an interesting source for royal historians. A selection of Queen Victoria's letters to Victoria have been published with a commentary by Richard Hough and an introduction by Vict...
Grand Duchy of Hesse: Dame of the Order of the Golden Lion, 1 January 1883Kingdom of Prussia: Red Cross Medal, 1st ClassRussian Empire: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. CatherineMassie, Robert K. (1995). The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-40640-8.Miller, Ilana D. (2011). The Four Graces: Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters. East Richmond Heights, California: Kensington House Books. ISBN 978-0-9771961-9-7.A "sisters" biography of the fou...Mountbatten, Victoria. Recollections of Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (PDF).Portraits of Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonThe Hesse Heist: The Family von Hessen. The story of the Hesse Heist, the theft of royal German jewels, delves into the wartime story of the Nazi elite. June 25, 2021. Top Image: Philipp von Hessen, circa 1934. From the US National Archives.
Below is an indexed listing with links to biographical articles about the Grand Ducal Family of Hesse and by Rhine as well as the Princely Family of Battenberg, the British Mountbattens, and other Hessian Royals at Unofficial Royalty.
Philip 1663–1721 son of William VI. Charles (Karl) I 1721–1770. William (Wilhelm) 1770–1806 (died 1810) 1806 annexed by the Kingdom of Westphalia. 1813 restored under the supremacy of the Elector of Hesse. Louis (Ludwig) 1813–1816. Ernst Constantine 1816–1849. Charles II (Karl, 1849–1866 1866 annexed by Prussia.
